Vulnerability · Published May 25, 2022 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2022-29379
Critical 9.8
In plain English
A critical-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.8% (higher than 79% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)9.8Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)1.8%top 21.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
Nginx NJS v0.7.3 was discovered to contain a stack overflow in the function njs_default_module_loader at /src/njs/src/njs_module.c. NOTE: multiple third parties dispute this report, e.g., the behavior is only found in unreleased development code that was not part of the 0.7.2, 0.7.3, or 0.7.4 release
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://github.com/nginx/njs/issues/491 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/nginx/njs/issues/493 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/nginx/njs/commit/ab1702c7af9959366a5ddc4a75b4357d4e9ebdc1 x_refsource_MISC